It would be helpful to know what version of Excel you are using. If it's
excel 2007...
(1) Click the "insert" tab
(2) Click on the "scatter" button in the "Charts" group.
(3) Click a chart type from the drop down menu ie. with/without lines etc.
This will insert an empty chart box onto your sheet.
(4) Right click on the empty chart and click "select data" - this will bring
up the "select data source" window.
(5) In this new window, click the "add" button. This will bring up the "Edit
Series" window with three text boxes.
(6) in the "series name" box, give your data a name - this can be anything,
ie.. fred/data1/mydata etc.
(7) Click on the little "select range" button to the right of the "series x
values" textbox - once the next "edit series" window appears, just highlight
the appropriate x-coordinates from your spreadsheet with the cursor. Excel
will then write the appropriate formula into the textbox. Click the button
with the little red arrow in the "edit series" window to return.
(8) Repeat step 7 for the "series y values" box
(9) Click OK on the "edit series" window
(10) Click OK on the "Select data source" window.
That should be it, you should have a nice x-y plot of your data. Hope this
helps, if it's an earlier version of excel, things look slightly different
but the method is very similar.
"Wobbles" wrote:
Help . I have been trying and failing to sucessfully plot x , y co
ordinates from worksheet data containing 3 columns One being the name of
the location the next being the x co ords and the final one bieng the y
co ord.
I can not get these simple points to be plotted. I am using x,y
scatter but tried bubble too
Why is this apparently simple task getting the better of me.
Ps the number of records may eventualy exceed 255 points and that seems
to pop up as an issue too
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Wobbles
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